William Blake
The Question Answer'd

Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody! Who are you? (260)
Wild Nights – Wild Nights! (249)

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Oread

Paul Laurence Dunbar
A Negro Love Song

T. S. Eliot
Morning at the Window

Robert Frost
Design
The Lockless Door

Gerard Manley Hopkins
As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame

A. E. Housman
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?

Rudyard Kipling
You mustn't swim till your six weeks old

D. H. Lawrence
The North Country

Emma Lazarus
Long Island Sound

Vachel Lindsay
Here's To the Mice!

Mina Loy
from Songs for Joannes

Claude McKay
America
The Tropics of New York

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Exiled

Marianne Moore
The Fish

Wilfred Owen
Anthem for Doomed Youth

Edgar Allan Poe
El Dorado

Ezra Pound
The Return

Edwin Arlington Robinson
Dear Friends
Richard Cory

Christina Rossetti
from Monna Innominata
[Many in aftertimes will say of you]

Carl Sandburg
Back Yard

William Shakespeare
From you have I been absent in the spring... (Sonnet 98)
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18)
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)

Shel Silverstein
If the World Was Crazy
Where the Sidewalk Ends

Gertrude Stein
from Tender Buttons [Objects]

Wallace Stevens
The Emperor of Ice Cream

Sara Teasdale
Barter
I Am Not Yours

Walt Whitman
A noiseless patient spider
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
O Me! O Life!

William Carlos Williams
Peace on Earth

W. B. Yeats
Byzantium